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Book Collecting Seminar, Collecting Middle Eastern Books and Manucripts. With Nick McBurney, Alex Day (Quaritch), Roxana Kashani (Bloomsbury Auctions)
Book Collecting Seminar, Collecting Middle Eastern Books and Manucripts. With Nick McBurney, Alex Day (Quaritch), Roxana Kashani (Bloomsbury Auctions). June 9.
Dr Steven Connor
Book Collecting Seminar - Magic: from John Dee to Aleister Crowley. With Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians) and Christina Oakley Harrington (Treadwell’s Books)
The focus of these lectures and seminars is on bibliophilia and the book trade....
Book Collecting Seminar - Elisabeth Grass
Queer books - an academic, an artist, a collector and a librarian discuss the field
Professor Steven Matthews, University of Reading.
T.S. Eliot International Summer School
The 2017 London Lecture with Professor Sir Drummond Bone
Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy co-lateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectu...
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2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture
Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change
Professor Eavan Boland
In the last hundred years Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and politi...
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Wordsworth Trust Annual Lecture 2016
Romantic Poetry and the Existing State of Things
Professor Michael Rossington
(Newcastle University)
In November 2015, the only surviving copy of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Po...
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The John Coffin Memorial Readin
The influence of Joyce's writing on Iain Sinclair's own style of urban narrative
Iain Sinclair
In association with the conference Anniversary Joyce: XXV International James Joyce ...
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Alice in Cableland
Anne Chapman (PhD Candidate, KCL)
Caroline Arscott (Professor of Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Clare Pettitt (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, KCL)
Natalie H...
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Reading the World: Challenging the Dynamics of Canon Formations
Keynote Address
Co-chairs:
Professor Rose Levinson (PhD)
Professor Francesca Orsini (PhD)
Finding words: The Shelter of Stories in Time of War
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Recasting Book History
Professor Simon Eliot
(IES)
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The John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’
Professor Nicholas Vincent FBA
(University of East Anglia and Magna Carta Project)
Professor Nicholas Vincent, FBA, will be delive...
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The Annual Wordsworth Lecture
'Wordsworth and the Meaning of Trees'
Professor Fiona Stafford
(University of Oxford)
From the 'Sylvan Wye' by Tintern Abbey to the 'leafy glen' in 'Airey Force Valley', Wordsworth's...